06 Tuesday Oct 2015
Posted in Food, Restaurants
Chef Michael Solomonov sees his mission as connecting people to the food of his homeland. “That, to me, is my life’s work,” he says. Solomonov’s new cookbook is Zahav: A World of Israeli Cooking.
Source: For Israeli-Born Chef, Hummus And ‘Tehina’ Are A Bridge To Home : The Salt : NPR
14 Monday Apr 2014
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09 Sunday Mar 2014
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30 Tuesday Jul 2013
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Sang Kee Asian Bistro in Wynnewood is expanding into the former Carvel ice cream shop next door.
Owner Michael Chow says the new space will be a regular dining room as well as banquet room.
He expects to open the new room in November.
Chow also recently opened a 100-seat noodle bar in Parx casino in Bensalem.
06 Monday May 2013
Posted in Food, Restaurants
By Caroline O’Halloran
cohalloran@mainlinemedianews.com
@carolineohallo
All you really need to know about Dana Smith Farrell is displayed across the top of her Facebook profile page.
Instead of the requisite photo of the family or prized vacation spot, topping Farrell’s page are two white words on a blackboard, all in caps: “DREAM
BIG,” which is precisely what this single mother of two has been doing for years.
Her first big dream, realized with then husband Tom Farrell in 1995, is practically a western Main Line institution: The Classic Diner in Malvern.
While others dismissed the Old Valley Grill as a timeworn greasy spoon, the Farrells, with no restaurant experience (Dana worked in sales and Tom was a self-taught home cook), saw the “for sale” sign and envisioned a great restaurant. How right they were.
When the Farrells divorced, she sold Tom her share of The Classic Diner in 2008, and moved on.
Her next dream, a farm-to-table bistro, came to fruition in May 2010 when she and her new business partner, Dave Magrogan, owner of six Kildare’s Irish pubs, opened Harvest Seasonal Grill and Wine Bar in Glen Mills’ trendy Glen Eagle Square. (READ MORE)
01 Wednesday May 2013
25 Thursday Apr 2013
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POSTED: Thursday, April 25, 2013, 11:34 AM
Michael Klein, Philly.com
Exterior of Citron & Rose. DAVID M WARREN / Staff Photographer
Michael Solomonov and Steve Cook say they have concluded their consulting arrangement with Citron & Rose, the kosher restaurant they helped open for philanthropist David Magerman in Merion Station.
The restaurant, which opened last November, will remain in business.
Solomonov was billed as executive chef. With kosher laws
31 Sunday Mar 2013
Posted in Food, Restaurants
Josh Lawler and wife Colleen, owners of Farm & Fisherman. “It seems like more has happened here in the past two years since I opened than in the nine years I was gone,” Lawler says. (READ ARTICLE)
11 Monday Feb 2013
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26 Saturday Jan 2013
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The Saint James.
Craig LaBan, Inquirer Restaurant Critic
Posted: Saturday, January 26, 2013, 12:00 PM
A plate shattered behind us just as we were settling into our hunter-plaid booth, and the burst was loud enough to somehow cut through the ear-busting din. But it was the sight of the crockery exploding that caught my eye, the pretty white china traced with a border and name, “The Saint James,” in shards across the floor. (READ MORE)
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